35 Homemade Soap Tutorials, Recipes, And Ideas You Can DIY! (2024)

Make your own natural homemade soap and never pay for this wash buddy again! We have a love affair with soapand this roundup of the best-looking and delicious-smelling handmade soap is giving us aserious glow. Learn how you can make these DIY homemade soap with any of the tutorials, recipes, and ideas you will find as you read on below!

Easy Homemade Soap Recipes for Beginners and Soap Aficionados

1. Felted Soap

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Personalize your soap with this amazing idea for a homemade soap. This would be a great gift you can share with your family and friends.

2. Popsicle Soap

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If you’re looking for a fun craft you can share with your kids, this popsicle soap tutorial will have them flying to your aid. Introduce your little ones to the art of soap making with this easy and colorful homemade soap idea.

3.Creamy No-Lye Oatmeal Soap

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Enjoy the beneficial anti-oxidant properties of oatmeal on your skin with this creamy oatmeal soap. What is even better about this homemade soap tutorial is the no-lye part which makes it an easy soap to make.

4. Cold Process Homemade Soap

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Find out how to make soap using the cold process. You can check out the handmade soap recipe and the detailed process here, where you can take an idea for your future soap-making projects.

5.Sunflower Oil Soap Recipe

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If you are particularly looking to make a moisturizing soap, look no further than this sunflower oil soap recipe. With anti-aging and sun protection, sunflower oil is your go-to ingredient for a moisturizing soap.

6. Goat Milk Soap Bars

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You’ve probably heard how goat’s milk is one of Cleopatra’s beauty secrets. Enjoy the benefits of goat’s milk on a soap in this easy goat milk soap recipe.

7. DIY Earl Grey Tea Soap

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One great thing about homemade soap is you can use different ingredients you can think of. For this recipe, Earl Grey tea is at play. This recipe is also a melt-and-pour process without lye, so you can safely DIY your soap even with the kids around.

8. Lye-Free Soap

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Take this easy no-lye soap recipe for your next experiment. It’s a basic process which could set the stage for your other soap-making experiments.

9. How To Make Aloe Vera Soap

We love aloe vera for it’s cooling, moisturizing, and anti-bacterial benefits. Put all these benefits on your aloe vera homemade soap and enjoy!

10. Oatmeal with Almonds Goat Milk Bar

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Oatmeal has great benefits for the skin. Why not combine it with goat milk and turn it into a handmade soap? Follow the step-by-step tutorial hereto make it.

11. 10-Minute DIY Peaches and Cream Homemade Soap

You read it right! In only 10 minutes, you get a creamy and sweet-smelling soap you can make right at home. It has also a lovely color or two color combination rather, which makes for a dreamy lathering.

12. Chocolate Goat Milk Soap

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If you love the scent of chocolate and milk, you will love it in your skin even more. Make this delectable-looking soap in this tutorial which also comes with two more homemade soap recipes.

13. Lemon Green Tea Soap

Matcha green tea and lemon are good for your body but they are also amazing for your skin. You can relish their benefits outside of your body in this zesty homemade soap.

14. Homemade Pumpkin Spice Soap

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Ten minutes is all you need to make this homemade soap. This would be the perfect gift you can give this Fall! Follow the step-by-step tutorial here.

15. Minty Poppy Seed Scrubby Soap

Who doesn’t want a two-in-one soap? You will love this minty poppy seed scrubby soap with two sides. One side will keep you cool and fresh while the other side will exfoliate your skin!

16. DIY Cinnamon Hazelnut Coffee Soap

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Please don’t put it in the dining table, you may mistake it as a delicious brownie. See how you can make this interesting homemade soap here.

17.DIY Hot Process Soap In The Crockpot

It’s not only your favorite dish you can whip up in a crockpot. Apparently, even a homemade soap will come out of a crockpot if you know what to do!

18. DIY Jaws Shark Soap for Kids

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Who wouldn’t want a bath with a surprise? Make this DIY glycerin soap with toy sharks inside. With this idea, you can put any toys you want in your homemade soap.

19. Star-Studded Unicorn Soap

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If it’s difficult to get your kids to take a bath, this homemade soap will solve your problem. A star-studded unicorn soap will definitely send them flying to the tub for a scrub.

20. Handmade Vanilla Latte Soap

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Coffee has the power to energize even in your homemade soap. With a sweet scent that’s overpowering, you will want to do a few more scrubs with this vanilla latte soap.

21. Citrus Summer Punch Swirl Soap

So how does this soap get to have its rainbow swirls color? You will need to do a fun experiment of mixing up colors with the right stroke and swirl.

22. DIY Rainbow Soap

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This rainbow soap recipe will need you to bring out your DIY crafting savvy. The process is somewhat complex but the results are worth it!

23. 15-Minute DIY Watermelon Soap

You also have to watch out for this soap with small kids around. They might not be able to help it just by the looks of this watermelon soap!

24. 4-Steps Homemade Soap

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This would be the easiest handmade soap you can make in one-two-three-four… and you’re done! Melt glycerin soap, add your favorite scent, pour into molds, and scrub away!

25. DIY Galaxy Soap with Activated Charcoal

Give your friends and family a blush and googly eyes, combined with this amazing DIY galaxy soap. It’s wonderful what cosmetic glitter can do to a plain activated charcoal soap.

26. Exfoliating Coconut Soap

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Coconut is great for dry skin,plus it has known antibacterial properties. This homemade coconut soap recipe will also give you a plus with its exfoliating properties.

27. Creamy Vanilla Mint Soap With Glycerin Stripe

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We are having googly eyes for this vanilla mint soap with glycerin stripe. It almost lookstoo good to lather on the skin and too jello-like to eat.

28. Buttermilk Baby Soap

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Baby’s skin is super sensitive. Wouldn’t you want to know what ingredients exactly are in the soap you use for them? Try this mild homemade soap perfect for your baby’s skin.

29. Honey Oatmeal Handmade Soap

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Honey and oatmeal are not only good inside of you, they are also wonderful for your skin. This honey oatmeal soap is easy to create, which even your girls can make. A great idea for a slumber party with the other teens!

30. Beginner Handmade Soap

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If this is your first time making soap, we recommend this easy homemade soap recipe for beginners. This tutorial will also set the stage for your soap-making innovations which you may one day put up for sale.

31. Cold Process Soap Recipes with Shea Butter

Shea butter is a popular sweet-smelling ingredient to make soap, we love and we cannot leave out a room for this homemade soap recipe. This recipe, also have coconut, castor, hemp seed, and olive oil for a moisture powerhouse!

32. DIY Tea Tree and Charcoal Loofah Soap

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This is a great soap making idea–loofa and soap all in one bar. Not only will the soap exfoliate, it will also disinfect with the loofah and tea tree oil combination.

33. Homemade Activated Charcoal Soap

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Activated personal use products are still trendy these days owing to its wonderful deep-cleaning effect. Make this DIY soap for everyone in the family.

34. Organic Castille Liquid Hand Soap

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If you’d like to go organic, this is a great homemade hand soap you can try to make. For a soap, you are always in contact with, it is best to go organic.

35. DIY Tin-Mold Soap

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This would be the perfect gift idea or something you can easily bring with you when you travel. So say bye-bye hotel soaps with harsh chemicals and say hello to natural homemade soap you made on your own.

Learnhow to make natural homemade soap in four ways in this video from Kin:

There you go, bath and body products aficionados! Delicious-smelling natural homemade soap recipes you can make on your own. With these ideas, we fully expect your home and yourself to be just as sweet-smelling!

We hope you enjoyed these amazing homemade soap tutorials and recipes! Try them out at home and let us know how it goes. You can share your experience with us in the comments section below!

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FAQs

What is the simplest way to make soap at home? ›

Ingredients and equipment
  1. coconut oil ⅔ cup (helps to produce lather)
  2. olive oil ⅔ cup.
  3. other liquid oil ⅔ cup – like almond oil, grapeseed, sunflower or safflower oil.
  4. ¼ cup lye – also called 100% sodium hydroxide.
  5. ¾ cup cool water (use distilled or purified)
  6. Quart canning jar.
  7. Pint canning jar.
  8. Soap molds.
Mar 19, 2020

What are the 3 main ingredients in soap making? ›

Handcrafted soaps made from scratch require three things to become soap: oil, water and lye. It is the chemical reaction between these ingredients that turns them into soap. Most soap also has other ingredients added to provide benefits to the soap, or to color or scent it.

How do you make soap in 5 minutes? ›

Step 2: 5 Minutes of Soap Making
  1. Step 1: Figure out how much soap base to melt. ...
  2. Step 2: Cut soap base into chunks and add required amount to glass measuring cup. ...
  3. Step 3: Melt the soap. ...
  4. Step 4: Add the coloring and scents. ...
  5. Step 5: Mix and pour. ...
  6. Step 6: Demold the soap.

How do you make old fashioned soap? ›

Here are couple of old fashioned soap recipes: A typical Southern recipe: “One half-box of concentrated lye, four pounds of grease, one pound of rosin, five gallons of water. Boil all together until the soap is made…then add a half pint of salt dissolved in a quart of water, boil a few minutes longer, and pour off.”

What is the easiest homemade soap to make? ›

Simple Beginner Soap Recipe Ingredients
  1. 8 oz. Olive Oil (25%)
  2. 12 oz. Coconut Oil (37.5%)
  3. 12 oz. ...
  4. 4.5 oz lye (sodium hydroxide)
  5. 10.2 oz filtered water I use the Berkey Water Filter and really like it.
  6. 2-2.5 oz of fragrance oil or essential oil (I love lavender)
  7. A spray bottle of 99% isopropyl alcohol (optional)
Apr 14, 2022

How do you make soap at home with all natural ingredients? ›

Ingredients:
  1. 8 1/2 oz (240g) Olive Oil.
  2. 1 1/2 oz (40g) Avocado Oil.
  3. 2 oz (50g) Coconut Oil.
  4. 2 oz (50g) Palm Oil (from sustainable sources)
  5. 1 oz (30g) Beeswax.
  6. 6 oz (170g) Distilled water.
  7. 2 oz (55g) Lye (Sodium Hydroxide/Caustic Soda)
  8. 1 1/2 teaspoons (7ml) Grapefruit essential oil.
Mar 5, 2024

Can you make soap without lye? ›

NO, chemically-speaking, soap itself cannot be made without lye. Soap is made by blending oils (like olive oil or coconut oil), a liquid (water, goat's milk, etc.), and an alkali (lye). Lye is needed to convert oils into soap.

What is pure lye? ›

It is 100% pure sodium hydroxide, which can make all sorts of things like detergent, laundry detergent, or deodorant products. The main reason soapmakers use lye in their soaps is that it has many benefits over other ingredients, such as salt or synthetic chemicals found in many non-natural soaps today.

How do you make soap with two ingredients? ›

Easy Two Ingredient Foaming Hand Soap Recipe:

Bronner's Liquid Castile Soap (I eyeball it. It should fill up your bottle about 1/6 of the way up). Top up with distilled water. Shake, and it's ready to use!

What is a soft soap? ›

Generally, potassium soaps are more soluble and are soft on the skin than sodium soaps. Hence, potassium soaps are known as soft soaps. Soft soaps are made by the saponification of Glyceryl ester with potassium hydroxide to form potassium salt of fatty acids (soap).

What is the best oil to add to homemade soap? ›

The best base oils to use for soap are saturated fats. They make the bar harder and last longer. These are usually solid oils that have to be melted before use, such as Coconut oil, Cocoa Butter or Palm Oil. Then there are the unsaturated fats that can be added to the soap for their properties.

What is a substitute for lye in soap making? ›

Still, some soap-makers make a point of positioning themselves as lye “alternatives,” insisting – for example – they use glycerin instead, or make their soap without the involvement of lye.

What are 3 oils for soap making? ›

Coconut oil, olive oil, and palm oil are all great choices for making bar soap. Castor oil is a great choice for liquid soap and is also great for people with dry or sensitive skin. Almond oil and jojoba oil are also great choices for making liquid soap.

How do you make homemade soap from scratch? ›

First, purchase pre-made blocks of uncolored, unscented soap “base” from a craft store or soap supplier. The soap base is then melted in a microwave or a double boiler. When the soap is fully melted you can add fragrance, color, and additives. Pour the mixture into a mold and the soap is ready to use when it hardens.

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